Psychiatric Research

3. It is a disorder characterized by
It is a disorder characterized by
changes in mood ranging from mania to
changes in mood ranging from mania to
depression
depression
a feeling of comfort, an overwhelming feeling of
stimulation and exaggerated sadness, anxiety, low self-
grandeur in which a person esteem, which can include
loses touch with reality suicidal thoughts and attempts

4. Mood within normal, which implies the
absence of depressed or elevated mood.
A patient with this disorder but is in
remission.

5. determining the level of
neurocognitive impairment
in
patients whose persists
bipolar disorder in
remission

6. Patients
Patients The control group
The control group
(n = 63)
(n = 63) (n = 63)
(n = 63)
54 bipolar I disorders They have no current and past
9 type II bipolar disorders psychiatric illness.
5 with rapid cycling

7. Patients excluded:
Patients taking corticosteroids or
antihypertensive drugs
Defining euthymic patients
Score 7 or less on the scale:
 The Hamilton Depression Scale or Beck
 The Young Mania Scale or Altman

8. The radioimmunoassay test
confirmed that the patients
were eucortisolaemic

11. Patients with bipolar disorder
Patients with bipolar disorder
performed significantly lower
performed significantly lower
compared to healthy subjects.
compared to healthy subjects.

12. no significant associated with less
differences the further affected
deterioration

13. large intermediate reduced effect
magnitude of magnitude of
effect effect

14. large reduced magnitude middle and lower significant
magnitude of of effect effect compared degree of
effect with memory and heterogeneity
executive functions

15. This study confirms earlier findings of:
Impaired executive
functioning
Response inhibition

16. This study confirms earlier findings of:
Is associated with poor
psychosocial functioning

17. • For clinicians, these results reinforce
the importance of assessing cognitive
function in patients with bipolar
disorder

18. The development of the treat is
important to reduce disability due to
chronic mental illnesses